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p. 9. Creation of bourgeois society (and the corresponding situation in Europe) by the great French Revolution.³

p. 10....... "to conceal from themselves the bourgeois-limited content of their struggle".... (("fighters for bourgeois society" of the 18th century)).⁴

p. 10. "In 1848-54 only the ghost of the old revolution wandered about."⁵

p. 11. "The social revolution of the 19th century cannot draw its poetry from the past"....
"must let the dead bury their dead."⁶

p. 11. "The February Revolution caught the old society unawares..."⁷

p. 12. "It was not society that had won itself new content, but apparently the state that had returned to its most ancient form..."⁸

To the sudden attack (II 48) — a sudden coup (XII 51).⁹

February Revolution — "a disturbance of the surface"... gave "lessons and experience," (NB) which... "with a correct, so to speak pedantic course of development"... (NB)

Bourgeois revolutions... rush from success to success... are fleeting.

Revolutions of the proletariat (such as the revolution of the 19th century) criticize themselves.¹⁰

p. 45. "Weakness, as always, was saved by faith in miracles"...¹¹

p. 15: The proletariat proclaimed the republic a social republic... an allusion to the general content of the contemporary (NB) revolution... in the most strange contradiction with what could have been accomplished immediately.

Why was the nation caught unawares? p. 141

The proletariat engaged in the most serious deliberations on social questions.... the old forces found support in the peasant masses and the petty bourgeoisie.¹²

p. 16: The National Assembly (4 V 48 — V 49) was a living protest against the pretensions of the February days... had to reduce the results of the revolution to the bourgeois level....... contra: "the social republic"!!!¹³

The February days initially aimed to achieve an expansion of the circle of those with political rights among the propertied classes (15).¹⁴

¹ "Library of the Russian Proletariat" — publishing house of G. A. Kuklin. "The 18th Brumaire" — No. 46 of this series was published in Geneva in 1905 in the translation by B. Krichovsky. All page numbers are indicated by Lenin according to this edition. We subsequently indicate the corresponding pages in the publication of the Marx and Engels Institute (Library of the Marxist, issue VII) 1926. In No. 3 of *Proletariat* from July 9 (May 27), 1905, a declaration from May 1 of the "Library of the Russian Proletariat" was published stating that "beginning with No. 46, in the publication of further issues it will be guided exclusively by the program of the RSDLP and the decisions of the congresses of the Russian and international social democracy," and in No. 7 of *Proletariat* from July 10 (June 27) Kuklin announced that he was ceasing publishing activities and transferring both the typographical equipment and all publications of the Library to the Central Committee of the RSDLP.

² In the 1926 edition — p. 4.

³ Here a summary presentation of pp. 9 and partly 10 of the 1905 edition is given; 1926 edition — p. 8.

⁴ In the 1926 edition — p. 8.

⁵ In the 1926 edition — p. 9.

⁶ In the 1926 edition — p. 10.

⁷ In the 1926 edition — p. 10.

⁸ In the 1926 edition — p. 10.

⁹ In the 1905 edition it was translated: "To the coup de main (sudden attack) of February 1848 the coup de tête (reckless exploit) of December 1851 responds." In the 1926 edition — the corresponding p. 10.

¹⁰ In the 1926 edition — p. 10.

¹¹ In the 1926 edition — p. 11. Lenin placed this idea at the basis of the document "No Falsehood," recorded at the end of notebook No. 1292. The document was published in Lenin Miscellany V, p. 381-385.

¹² In the 1926 edition — p. 13.

¹³ In the 1926 edition — p. 14.

¹⁴ In the 1926 edition — p. 13.

Further in the notebook, on pages 3-6, appears the following note: "Concerning the Congress of Zemstvo Men" (see Lenin Miscellany V, p. 378), "Draft of an Agrarian Program of the PSR" (ibid., p. 391-393), "Socialism and the Peasantry" (ibid., p. 390-391), and "On the Zemstvo Congress" (ibid., p. 379).

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Excerpts from Russian and foreign newspapers, printed below, partially used by Lenin in the articles: "The Satiated Bourgeoisie and the Hungry Bourgeoisie," "Note to the Article of M. Borisov on the Professional Movement and the Tasks of Social Democracy," "The Last Word of Iskra Tactics," and "Lessons of the Moscow Events" (Works, vol. VIII, p. 263-268, 288, 296-309, 344-348).

THREE EXCERPTS FROM "RUS" ON A STUDENT GATHERING, ON THE ATTITUDE OF "PRAVO" TOWARD A BOYCOTT OF THE BAILMYGIN DUMA, AND ON THE GOVERNMENT'S RETREAT.

*Rus* 13.IX.05 "At the University." On a gathering of 2000 people at the Petersburg University.

..."In bright and powerful speeches the orators characterized the contemporary political situation and its further prospects. They pointed, primarily, to the fact that the correlation of forces had changed: bourgeois-liberal groups, under the influence of certain concessions, had now renounced full active participation in the liberation movement of the country. Therefore the proletariat in its struggle stands alone..."

..."The student body completely rejects the significance and appropriateness of the granted reforms. The nobility and bourgeoisie have taken another point of view, betraying the proletariat. The latter needs support — and the student body, as the expression of the best forces of the country, should, must join it. Now the student-citizen will appear. He will go to the countryside to prepare the peasantry, to teach it socialism. This new force and the proletariat will create a different legal order, even if it costs thousands of sacrifices.

"Such is the brief political credo of the vast majority of students."

[Reference]. Cited from No. 36 of *Pravo*: Hessen (V. M.) against "boycott." *Rus* adds from itself that the idea of "abstention" in the press (sic!) is preached by few, for example Myakotin in *Russian Wealth*.

Further, *Rus* says: ..."The question concerns the preservation in inviolate purity of the "principle," and this principled dispute reminds one of the usual dispute dividing social democratic parties in the West, whereby the orthodox "principled" ones consider the participation of s.d. in "bourgeois government" to be inadmissible.